I never, for a moment, believed the myth of a peaceful nuclear program perpetuated by the Iranian regime. I don't think anyone of us Iranians, especially those of the opposition, did. We were just hoping those who got away with murdering our children on the streets of Tehran a couple...

When I wrote my 'call to meet' last week, I knew I was baring my neck for the guillotine. Iranian opposition groups to the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) are notoriously hard to organize. Even the five reformist intellectuals, who published a manifesto for the opposition,...

Call for a Council of All IRI Opposition Leaders:
(I wrote a call for unity a couple of weeks ago, now I present how I think we should proceed to unite.)

1. Book a conference anyone can travel to, like Turkey or Malaysia where there are...

I have become a Facebook and Twitter addict. Today I went online to post a tweet/status about how happy I was to be picking up my son at the airport. My maternal glee transformed into sorrow and horror when I saw the news posted by the women's rights group The...

The opposition group Coordination Council for the Green Path of Hope issued a defiant call for protests to commemorate the 7th day of the martyrdom of two students killed during the 25th Bahman (Feb.14) demonstrations. For the first time the reformist group's call to protest was asking for "an end...

In Tehran yesterday the crowds were in the thousands -- much more than expected by most of us, but sporadic. It seems like security forces managed to keep anyone from staying in one place long enough to make it a huge center. I can only rely on my own eyewitness...

We have many pundits and experts comparing the Iranian election uprising (2009) with the Egyptian one taking place right now. One was sparked by the results of an election that seemed rigged while the other was caused by mounting political and economic discontent towards a long-standing dictator. Some say that...

My mother just returned to Iran. When she called this morning I thought she was just calling to inform me of her safe arrival. Instead, her voice was shaking. Fatemeh Khanoom, the woman who cleans my mother's house and whom I had written about for women's day, was...

To mark International Women's Day, I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad's first term. The three of them worked for me as housekeepers or babysitters and my knowledge of their lives is limited to our...

22nd Bahman (2/11/2010), which commemorated the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and was supposed to mark its end with a massive opposition demonstration, was a big disappointment. Yet it was not in any way the death knell of the opposition to this regime.

The Green movement showed its...

With the Feb. 11th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution looming, the Islamic Republic, faced with an unprecedented scale of opposition, seems like a bleeding monster, leading many to think it is facing certain demise. I wrote the poem below on the occasion of the 22bahman/11th Feb. demonstrations against the regime.

These are both tense and exciting times in Iran and amongst the opposition abroad. In the build-up to 22 Bahman[1] which is yet another chance for the Green movement to use the cover of official demonstrations to come out en-mass to protest, the regime is showing signs of uncharacteristic and...